Check out how I transformed that lovely 1950’s lace number from frumpy to fantabulous!
Totally not feeling the ill-fitting, scratchy-lined before of the dress, so…
I carefully removed the itchy lining (it looks deceivingly satiny soft in the photo but felt like a pot-scourer against my skin, yuck!), the broken zipper and an extremely old dry cleaning tag
grabbed another fab vintage dress that fits me well, placed it on top & used it as a guide to pin in the sides of the lace dress
stitched along the pins to take in the width of the dress
sliced off the excess fabric & chopped the length
created some sleeves from that chopped length & hemmed the bottom (just like my other awesome orange dress transformation)
and my smashing tangerine dress is now fit for flaunting!
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oh wow!!! I LOVE the back of the dress!
The back of the dress was the main selling point for me, once I saw it I knew I’d be able to fix up the rest 😀
Yay! What a save! I love this so much!
Thanks Ginger…It’s definitely one of my top faves, I just wish I had more occasions to wear it! 😉
Did you line it with some other fabric? It looks like it is lined in the photos. I love the color and all the details in the lace.
Cheers Tami 😀 I decided not to give the dress a new lining & simply wear one of my fab vintage slips under it + I can completely change the look of the dress by wearing a different coloured slip – an awesome bonus!
Fantastic!!! Love that you saw potential in the overdress and found a way to nix the ugly underthing. And add sleeves. Keep chopping and sewing!
Thanks very much…seeing the potential in garments is totally my thang! 😉
Absolutely fabulous. The back detail is adorable 🙂
Thanks…I wish I could take credit for the back as well but that was the one original bit I didn’t have to change! 😉
looks a million dollars
Vielen Dank 😀